The Central District Court of Kemerovo received a criminal case against a 19-year-old student accused of vandalism motivated by political hatred (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code). Information and Analytical Center "Sova" about this. writes According to investigators, the girl allegedly doused the banners hung for Victory Day with paint to express her disagreement with the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine.

A case was opened against Tolyatti resident Alexey Arbuzenko under the article of vandalism motivated by political hatred (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) due to the damage to banners in support of the war with Ukraine. This was reported on August 3 by the telegram channel and online publication.

In Moscow, the investigation into the case of Olga Kuzmina, an environmental activist persecuted because of an action against a renovation program and tree cutting in the north-east of the city, has been completed. This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Katerina Tertukhina. Kuzmina is charged with hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

Environmentalist and social activist Valentina Velichkina spoke about the pressure from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB who came to her house. about this . writes Kavkaz.Realii According to the 74-year-old activist, the security forces came to her on July 29, immediately after her return from Moscow, where the woman was detained at a picket against deforestation on Mount Mashuk in the Stavropol Territory.

At the request of the FSB, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow has arrested editor-in-chief Roman Dobrokhotov in absentia in a case of illegal border crossing (Part 1 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code). TASS reported this. The Insider reports that Dobrokhotov was wanted in connection with the illegal border crossing case on September 30, 2021. At the same time, the apartments of his parents and wife Ekaterina Ignatova were searched, after which they were interrogated by the FSB.

On August 2, the Central District Court of Novosibirsk upheld the mayor's office's refusal to approve a rally against corruption and low living standards. This is reported by RusNews YouTube channel and the Christian Anarchist . The 97-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War Vladimir Stepanov acted as the applicant for the rally.

The court sent Vladimir Panfilov, a journalist from the Oryol publication Orlets, to a pre-trial detention center until October 1 in a case of extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code). This is what SOTA is about.

The Main Investigative Department of the Moscow Investigative Committee charged Tomsk journalist Igor Kuznetsov with two counts in the case of the “What-to-Date!” movement. This was reported in the “Human Rights Protection” telegram channel. Kuznetsov is charged with involvement in organizing mass riots (Part 1.1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred and enmity (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

The defendant of the case “Spring” Ekaterina Goncharov was put on the federal wanted list. The girl on her Instagram about this. I wrote Sota that for the base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I used a photo of Goncharova at the age of 10, although she is now 20 years old. Notes On March 3, Ekaterina Goncharova ten days of arrest under the article on the organization of an inconsistent public event (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). After that, she left Russia.

The 2nd center of Moscow at the Four Seasons Hotel detained Winer Lukmanov, who entered a single picket with a poster, where Mikhail Lermontov’s poem “Farewell, Unwashed Russia” was quoted. About this Lukmanov himself informed the OVD-info. The detainee was delivered to the police department in the Kitay-Gorod district. 19:02 Viner Lukmanov was released from the police.

Lawyers' Chamber "Nizam" in Chechnya On July 15, three lawyers working in Crimea - Lilya Gemedzhi, Nazim Sheikhmambetov and Rustem Kamilyov. They told about this to publications and. deprived “Crimean Solidarity” of “Grati” of its status . As Sheikhmambetov clarified in a conversation with OVD-Info, he received an electronic notification of deprivation of his lawyer status on the twentieth of July.

At a visiting session, the Central District Military Court sentenced ten defendants in the Tyumen Hizb ut-Tahrir case to long prison terms. Relatives of the prisoners told OVD-Info about this. Alim Timkanov received 18 years in prison, Marat Saibatalov - 17 years, Ruslan Bariev - 14 years, Aidar Tashbulatov and Shakhboz Makhmudov - 13 years, Damir Abdrafikov and Ruslan Fomin - 12 years, Farrukh Makhkamov, Rafis Idrisov and Turatbek Osmonkulov - 11 years.

Former candidate for deputy of the Berdsk City Council, Kirill Levchenko, was put on the wanted list in a criminal case. Information about this appeared in the Ministry of Internal Affairs database. At the beginning of July, a case was opened against Levchenko under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The reason was a BBC video about the consequences of the war in Ukraine, posted on the politician’s Instagram.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow fined 20,000 rubles for a picketer who went out to the FSB building on July 17 with a placard “No to political reprisals! Freedom for political prisoners." This was reported to OVD-Info by a girl who was present at the meeting. The picket was found guilty of violating the rules for participation in the rally (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

On August 3, civil activist from Novosibirsk Elena Tardasova-Yun was detained by police in Prokopyevsk (Kemerovo region), where she went to visit her sister, and then taken to Novosibirsk for questioning. This is what “Siberia” is about. Realities”, and on August 4 she stopped communicating. managed to inform OVD-Info by the time the news was published, and it was also not possible to reach Tardasova-Yun.